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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

The correct choice of your small business structure is going to influence all your daily operations, taxes, filing, personal liability, and asset management,Henceforth, choose it wisely so that you can obtain the right balance of your legal protections and advantages. Cooperatives. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business Review

Nowadays, the same handful of large, diversified asset management companies controls a significant proportion of US corporations. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation. public companies.

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One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks

Harvard Business Review

Then Morgan forced those competitors to cooperate. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. trillion in assets.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan’s Cooper explains it this way: “Many companies are waking up to the incredible amount of untapped talent that has left Wall Street firms.” And last week J.P.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. Even non-governmental organizations, hardly usual allies for the private sector, are joining the wave of support for small business.

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When He Retires and She Still Works, What Happens?

Harvard Business Review

At age 48, in 2004, I decided to leave my great job as a mutual fund manager to co-found an asset management firm. What I found, however, was more negotiation and cooperation than conflict. This subject has been on my mind for years.

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Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business Review

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Customer acquisition has been halted; you need to maximize value from existing customers.